canniballectern

If a jellyfish was able to have a conversation with you where it credibly described what it's like to be conscious, would you reject it because it doesn't have a brain and therefore cannot have a mind in the same sense as you?

If the replicas were truly exact, I guess not ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Of course, today's LLMs only appear to have theory of mind at first glance and fall apart under closer scrutiny. But if they can continue to become more and more accurate replicas of the real thing, I don't think it matters at all.

There's no way to know for sure that anyone other than yourself experiences consciousness. All you can do is judge for yourself that what they're describing matches closely enough with your own experiences that they're probably experiencing the same thing you are.

What makes you think UX people aren't?

> what is it about some people who seem to be constantly restless while others seem content to staying pretty much exactly where they were born

IMO the main factors would be your economic situation and your relationship with your family. People with little money and tight family ties probably wouldn't be keen to move very far, whereas someone with a bad or indifferent relationship to family and the means to head elsewhere would probably do so.

I guess the missing piece from this would be trends in immigration rates.

Otherwise countries like Canada would appear to be shrinking, when in fact they're growing overall.

Did you read the article? It's just a review of a book - the article itself doesn't have much to say either way about modern clubs, besides acknowledging the recent Pincher news.

The late 2000s Mazda concepts are some of the most beautiful cars ever designed. Unfortunately the list left out my favorite, the Ryuga.

https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1028135_mazda-ryuga-conc...

> there is almost no one who would not understand, “It’s fourth and ten—we have to punt.”

One problem with heavily using sports, gaming, and war analogies to talk about strategy is that the discussion starts to make no sense at all to people who aren't interested in those things but who do care about strategy.

But I guess if you're the Modern War Institute at West Point, you know your audience pretty well, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It's not surprising that pixel art is easier to make in a raster editor than in a vector editor.

The 3rd image was probably made in Figma or Sketch though. It would probably take more time to build that in Photoshop than Figma, and the result would be harder to make changes to.

This is really cool, I'm excited to see more ML applied to design like this.

One project I wish someone would build is an ML-powered algorithm for perceptually even saturation, drawing on crowdsourced data to help pick colors that most people would perceive as being equally colorful

I don't really have relevant skills but this sounds really cool. It's the kind of thing I'd want to do if I had a rowing machine.

I don't get it - if "the mafia" wants "7% on your cap table", why would they reject your YC application and backchannel to get VCs to back off?

I wonder if what they meant was "it's impossible to have a turnkey solution for UX"?

There are all sorts of turnkey solutions for frontend and backend infrastructure, but none guarantee good user experiences - only a team that knows their users' needs and is empowered to meet them can do that.

This is the one they sell publicly to anyone at a relatively affordable price.

If they make ones that run cooler and look the same as a normal optic, they might not be so forthcoming about it.

I was really surprised to read that most movies have a different mix for streaming. Most of what I stream has such high dynamic range that it feels like a cinema mix to me. I can only imagine how bad it would be if we actually got the cinema mix.

Sounds like the privateers promised on paper to hold British prisoners for a certain amount of time, but actually set them free at the first convenient opportunity. Franklin didn't know this, and tried to set up an exchange of on-paper British prisoners for real American ones. The British were laughing because Franklin didn't know that he'd been ripped off by the privateers.

I bet this will be generally effective at shielding their other properties from bad news about Facebook.

For ordinary people, "WhatsApp is owned by Meta" is going to feel really different from "WhatsApp is owned by Facebook".

Regardless of where you personally draw the distinction, it's clear what the article means when they say it. That other guy acting like it's a mystery where the accusations of white supremacy are coming from is really reaching.

Your comment is confusing to me - the article is quite clear that when they say "white supremacist", they mean "a white person who committed a hate crime against Jews".

> Patton pled guilty to involvement in a 1990 shooting attack on a synagogue in Tennessee

Doesn't seem very ambiguous to me.

Here's another comment with some excellent demonstration video: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27984716

Games are really easy to test viability for, though. The game has perfect information about itself, rarely connects in a complex way to anything outside the game, and it's easy to replicate the user's context just by sitting in a dark room on your own. The test is simple - is it fun?

By contrast, most apps need to connect to people, software and things outside themselves - they're part of complex systems, and it's really hard to know if they work well without putting them into use and seeing how they perform - and that means selling and talking to users, not something you can do in isolation.

You'd probably do the same thing that powered ships do: build extra time into the schedule so that you never arrive late. This ship probably needs more padding because it relies on the wind, but the whole concept seems to be that that's an acceptable tradeoff for the environmental gains.

His grandmother is 91 years old, and smartphones are complex objects to understand and use, even with assistive technologies. If a 91 year old with normal vision has a hard time using the phone, I don't think adding near-blindness and assistive technology will make it any easier.

"Though Porsche Cars North America does not condone, promote, or acknowledge any sort of activity that would violate the rules of the road, we were pleased to see how well the Taycan and the charging infrastructure did during Kyle’s test," a Porsche spokesperson said in an email

You've already hinted at this, but it's not just selfishness - CEOs are much more mobile than companies. Both the CEO and the company as a whole are subject to similar incentives, but companies are big ships and execs' families are comparatively nimble.

I see the tweet, but I don't see her in the replies at all. Where did she take exception to the tweet?

As land creatures, we haven't explored the underwater tech tree in much detail. If there are fishpeople with mega brains out there somewhere, they might have figured out some stuff that we haven't.

This is silly. I could also list many scenarios where cars are bad.

The reality is that car ownership isn't necessary for many people - having access to a car is enough.

I can walk, bike, or bus most of the time, and then when I have a load of frozen food or furniture to bring home, I can rent or hail a car. And yeah, if I move to a rural area or I get bad knees, I'll buy a car.

> Monarchs always had a tenuous position

I wonder how much of our modern idea of kings as supremely powerful dictators is just a result of posturing and good PR by past kings.

As a king, you'd be acutely aware of how tenuous your position was, and you'd be doing as much mythmaking as you could to prevent people from questioning your power.